Waiting for the arrival of the STS-95 crewmembers at the Shuttle
Landing Facility are 137 media representatives, a small sampling of
more than 3,000 expected to attend the launch on Oct. 29. Flying into
KSC to make final preparations for their launch were Mission Commander
Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialist Scott
E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Mission
Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA), and
Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development
Agency of Japan (NASDA). The STS-95 mission includes research payloads
such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble
Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International
Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module
with experiments on space flight and the aging process. The mission is
expected to last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and return to KSC on
Nov. 7.
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